Editorial: University of Illinois Press

Autor: Americo Paredes

Año: 1976

Estado: Usado, buenas condiciones

Sinopsis: Smugglers, gringos, jailbirds, generals, folk heroes, as well as fat goats and ewes and beautiful women all animate the folk-songs of America's Texas-Mexican population. In this cancionero or songbook of the Lower Rio Grande Border country Américo Paredes presents sixty-six of these colorful songs, along with music and notes on tempo and manner of performing, as he shows how the songs reflect the heritage of his people -from the days when the first adventurous souls journeyed out into Chichimecaland, reached the Rio Grande, drank of its waters, an settled on its banks , untill the arrival of the pale-eyed strangers from the North, when the river became a barrier between one people. To reveal the meaning the songs have held for the generations who have sung them, Paredes vividly and movingly recounts the history of the Texas-Mexicans from 1750 through 1960 and discusses the specific sorts of songs -corridos, enlaces, danzas, décimas, canciones, serenatas- generally associated with particular historical eras and cultural subjects. For those interested in seriously studying the folksongs, he offers notes which place each entry within the context of Greater Mexican folksong, an extensive bibliography, English versions of the text, and a discography.